On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:32:01 +0000, sprots wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just got a new HP that has a motherboard that has no IDE chain, just
> SATA. The SATA drive has Windows XP on it. I had an IDE drive and a
> PCI IDE controller lying around so I hooked up the drive via the
> controller and attempted to install Redhat 9 on it (it needs to be
> redhat9...don't ask).
>
> Now, during the install grub insisted on being installed on the SATA
> primary instead of the IDE primary. I didn't want this but could see no
> way around it except to unplug the SATA drive and then install linux.
>
> So far so good.
>
> Now, I want to be able to boot to Windows XP (on the SATA drive) using
> grub. I modified /boot/grub/devices.map so that it reads:
>
> (fd0) /dev/fd0
> (hd0) /dev/hde
> (hd1) /dev/hda <--- I added this line and I got /dev/hda
> from dmesg which showed /dev/hda to be the SATA drive that has XP
> installed.
>
Just a stab in the dark here but I thought the linux naming convention
for SATA drives was /dev/sda?

> I then modified by /etc/grub.conf by adding the following to the bottom:
>
> title Windows XP
> map (hd0)(hd1)
> map (hd1)(hd0)
> root (hd0)
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
> However, when I attempt to boot into Windows XP, I get:
>
> Booting 'Windows XP'
>
> map (hd0)(hd1)
>
> Error 11: Unrecognized device string
>
> Not sure what is going on. Can anyone help?
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Greg

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:32:01 +0000, sprots wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just got a new HP that has a motherboard that has no IDE chain, just
> SATA. The SATA drive has Windows XP on it. I had an IDE drive and a
> PCI IDE controller lying around so I hooked up the drive via the
> controller and attempted to install Redhat 9 on it (it needs to be
> redhat9...don't ask).
>
> Now, during the install grub insisted on being installed on the SATA
> primary instead of the IDE primary. I didn't want this but could see no
> way around it except to unplug the SATA drive and then install linux.
>
> So far so good.
>
> Now, I want to be able to boot to Windows XP (on the SATA drive) using
> grub. I modified /boot/grub/devices.map so that it reads:
>
> (fd0) /dev/fd0
> (hd0) /dev/hde
> (hd1) /dev/hda <--- I added this line and I got /dev/hda
> from dmesg which showed /dev/hda to be the SATA drive that has XP
> installed.

The SATA drive is /dev/sda, not /dev/hda

> I then modified by /etc/grub.conf by adding the following to the bottom:
>
> title Windows XP
> map (hd0)(hd1)
> map (hd1)(hd0)
> root (hd0)
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
> However, when I attempt to boot into Windows XP, I get:
>
> Booting 'Windows XP'
>
> map (hd0)(hd1)
>
> Error 11: Unrecognized device string
>
> Not sure what is going on. Can anyone help?

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Make sure that BIOS has the IDE drive set as the boot drive, and copy/
past the above stanza into yout /boot/grub/grub.conf.

If your machine gets a grub menu, the above will work. If it boots
directly into Windows, you have the BIOS set to boot SATA first, and you
will need to change that.

--
imotgm
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